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As of February 2025, the mindshare of Cisco ACI in the Network Virtualization category stands at 46.5%, down from 47.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Energy/Utilities Company
4%
Educational Organization
4%
Retailer
4%
Insurance Company
3%
Comms Service Provider
3%
University
3%
Transportation Company
3%
Construction Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Media Company
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
Legal Firm
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%

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Raj Metkar - PeerSpot user
Director, Head of Networks at MUFG, EMEA
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Sep 10, 2024
Product version discussed: 5.2(8i)
Provides scalability, ease of migration for future DC moves, multi-tenancy and programmability

Pros

"Cisco ACI's multi-tenancy has been most beneficial for our network management."

Cons

"I would really appreciate it if Cisco came up with something centralized to monitor everything."
Rammohan Manike - PeerSpot user
Sr Consultant at Tata Consultancy
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Dec 29, 2024
Robust data center operations with focus on traffic management and future API enhancements

Pros

"The routing of traffic is one of our main focuses when utilizing Cisco ACI."

Cons

"We are looking at better synchronization with the cloud and on-premise, bringing in a multi-cloud networking solution. "
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Brook Debebe Hailu - PeerSpot user
Chief Technology Officer at Mehbub General Trading PLC
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Dec 29, 2024
Achieves network automation while recommending improvement to technical support

Pros

"Cisco ACI was the first product in the market, offering stability with a significant install base. "

Cons

"Cisco needs to enhance their technical support and pay more attention to regional support. "
SA
IT Solution Architect at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Mar 7, 2019
Product version discussed: v2.2
Provides integration with VMM domains and their L4 and L7 devices, like device packages for F5, Palo Alto, and ASA

Pros

"We are doing automation from ACI and we have integration with Azure. With the Azure stack integration we can have total automation. We can configure the EPGs from there, and we can configure load balancing functionalities from there as well. The most useful feature is that you don't need to configure anything on ACI itself. You can configure on Azure and it will provision your application."

Cons

"Where there is room for improvement from ACI is for Layer 2 and Layer 7 packages. Normally, when you're updating your ACI fabric or you're introducing new Layer 4 to Layer 7 devices, there are some constraints, there are some limitations... When you are doing device packages you will not have the functionality of ASM. It's like WAF, web application firewalls. So you need to configure it manually. "
Vasil Mitrov - PeerSpot user
Telecom Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Jan 4, 2023
Product version discussed: 6
Stable, easy to extend, scalable, and has a host-based routing feature

Pros

"I especially like the host-based routing feature of Cisco ACI because it's straightforward to do it on different data centers. Another valuable feature of Cisco ACI is that its management controller works very well with no issues."

Cons

"Cisco ACI, segmentation-wise, could be more flexible, which is an area for improvement. The solution could be improved in terms of macro or micro-segmentation for many access lists and contracts. The process becomes very messy in the end."
DT
Sr Manager at Cognizant
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Jun 30, 2019
Provides a lot of intuitive data to know how our application stack is performing

Pros

"The efficiency in terms of the data center latency has been reduced by around 20-30%. Our applications function a lot better. We get a lot of intuitive data to know how our application stack is performing. "

Cons

"The additional features I would like to see included in the next releases are support for our policy-based routing. There are endpoint issues that are there now in the code. Hopefully, these will get fixed in the future code. "
Eyal Amar - PeerSpot user
Presales Manager for Networking/DC team at Malam-Team
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Jan 16, 2024
A highly stable and scalable solution that can be used for the implementation of agile services with customer sites

Pros

"The most valuable features of Cisco ACI are micro-segmentation, the VXLAN, and the ACI flattening services."

Cons

"It would be good if Cisco ACI had some cross-domain orchestrator that could rule all the pillars in the customer network or interconnect more easily with the compass environment."
RK
Senior DGM at Bharat Electronics Limited
Verified user of Cisco ACI
Dec 5, 2022
Excellent sizing but blade servers could be more flexible

Pros

"ACI's most valuable feature is sizing - you can easily find the sizing of the data, which means the data speed, CPU, and virtualization can be determined."

Cons

"ACI's blade servers could be more flexible, and its storage interface is a little too complex because they use some third-party storage solution."